THE ADVENTURES OF A WOMAN IN SEARCH OF HER RIGHTS

First edition. Publisher's original paper covered pictorial boards, blue cloth spine. 17pp. Containing nearly 100 captioned sketches by Victorian illustrator Florence Claxton reproduced in facsimile by graphotype process of engraving. The boards are worn to the edges with some darkening and the odd mark but intact and without repair or the need for. The contents, with two-thirds of the front endpaper torn away are otherwise complete. The pages have a few finger marks and some spotting to the margins throughout. A good example of an obviously flimsy and fragile production.

A comic style satirical view of the role of women. The 'heroine' after being spurned by her lover pursues a traditional male education at Oxford. She becomes a suffragist after reading John Stuart Mill, the act destroying her looks. Now ugly, she must make her way as first a lawyer, then a politician, and finally a doctor, failing in each profession. Disappointed with her countrymen (and women) she moves to the United States and marries the polygamous leader of the Latter Day Saints, Brigham Young.